RSSFirefox 3.0.7 addresses maybe more than three security issues
By Scott M. Fulton, III | Published March 5, 2009, 11:18 AM
The latest commercial edition of Firefox, version 3.0.7, is said to address three "critical" security issues. But a close look at the list itself shows that a myriad of similar issues were grouped together as one, making the total list of high-level issues as high as six.
Four issues with layout engine crashes collectively constituted a single security issue, and the concern here is the possibility -- though no proof of concept yet exists -- that such crashes could lead to exploitable memory corruptions. Two of the four memory crash issues involve both series 2 and 3 of the browser, and some only occur when certain add-ons are installed.
In one case, a layout crash was reported by Firefox contributor Jesse Ruderman that was best recreated with the installation of Quitter, a quick-exit add-on written...by Jesse Ruderman.
Opera needed patching yesterday. Good job Chrome is proving not only to be the fastest, but also the most secure browser available.
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|Sometimes, multiple issues happen because of one function used by multiple features. It's reasonable that they found only one thing that was the cause of multiple problems.
The important point here is that they fixed them.
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|One would think a link to the changelog would have been included in this article. I suppose you'd rather we find it ourselves?
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|How hard is it to find a change log?
http://www.mozilla.com/e...efox/3.0.7/releasenotes/
Wow that took all of 2 seconds to visit the Firefox Home Page * and click the link to release notes.
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|In an article regarding the changes in 3.0.7, it would be nice to *not* have to use something other than this site to find it. Remember, the point is to keep us here, right?
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|If you and foxfyre keep on pace they shouldn't have to worry about keeping anyone else at the site.
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